Steve Harvey Under Fire For Flint Water Joke

The entertainer tells a Flint, Michigan caller on his radio show to “enjoy your nice brown glass of water.”

Listeners are saying comedian Steve Harvey bombed Wednesday on his radio show when he made tasteless jokes about the Flint water crisis, Mlive.com reports.

A caller from Flint, Michigan, who is a Golden State Warriors fan, was giving Harvey, a Cleveland Cavaliers supporter, a hard time about Cleveland’s defeat to the Warriors in the NBA Finals. He told Harvey that Cleveland didn’t “deserve jack.”

The Detroit Free Press reported that a listener posted to Facebook a video of a car radio tuned to Harvey’s show, which appears to capture what came next.

Harvey asks the caller if he’s from Flint, apparently to reconfirm. “That’s why y’all ain’t even got clean water,” The Free Press quoted what Harvey purportedly says. “When was the last time you touched water and it didn’t have lead in it?”

The co-hosts, laughing, try to stop Harvey from going further.

“I wasn’t talking about the city of Flint, I was talking about him,” the newspaper quoted Harvey. “He going to call in, say Cleveland don’t deserve jack, and he over there bathing in all that silver water.”